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On Dec 23 12:10, Houder wrote: > On 2015-12-23 11:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Dec 22 15:42, Houder wrote: > >>The > >>difference is that 'ls -l' on FC19 shows an additional plus sign. > > > >This is a problem in ls itself. The reason is that with the start of > >reimplementing the ACL handling (back in August 2014), the definition of > >MIN_ACL_ENTRIES changed from 4 to 3. > > > >I recall having a discussion with eblake (coreutils maintainer) via IRC > >in 2014 where we discussed this. At that time the mask entry was only > >fasked, so we came up with the fact that there's never an aclent_t with > >4 entries, so ls is still using the old definition to maintain backward > >compat. > > > >With the new code in 2.4.0 it's probably time to drop this Cygwin-specific > >workaround in coreutils (but it doesn't hurt much either). > > Does't hurt? > > Well, without the plus sign, the output of 'ls -l' looks suspicious/weird to > me in case of the example above ... Now that you mention it... I agree. It might hurt. But it's a rather seldom border case, so the confusion should be rather limited :) > Perhaps Eric agrees ... Yes, he very likely agrees. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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